"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep," Obama cautioned. Young and charismatic but with little experience on the national level, Obama smashed through racial barriers and easily defeated ...

<quoted text>Let's see Republicans gave financial institutions $245 billion and AIG $67..8 billion. Bailing out GM saved thousands of jobs including suppliers and dealerships. I would say THAT is meaningful. AIG? Wells Fargo? Not so much.

most of the banks were forced to take the bailouts, which they didn't need...others should have been allowed to fail....

Oh, we can add to that.... got the hostage taking t-p to concede defeat on the debt ceiling.... accelerated the draw down in Afghanistan.... got Russia to bow to him and force Syria to agree to wmd destruction... has kept the economy from tanking since the good ol' bushie boy days.... has allowed America to become the biggest oil produces.... has allowed America to be a net gas exporter.... has re-instituted the bushie boy tax cuts for the rich (though I think cons should give him credit for that!).... a net outflow of immigrants from Mexico....

<quoted text>Addressing a topic and spamming a thread with religious zealotry are two different things.

So just skip over all of it without reading, just as Galt skips over everything by the draft-dodging Moreno Valley scumbag with his thousands of names, the Demos/Tenzing alter ego Mr. Hyde, and anybody from Chicago.

<quoted text>You just don't know what the fuck you're talking about! Ihope you don't have kids. A child will do what he/she likes doing, fact! My mother not father sold drugs. Not only myself but, both my brothers all around up selling drugs. My mother, father, & younger brother all eat pig feet &, chitterlings. My older brother & I don't. My older brother and I, don't like mayonnaise, instead we like mustard. I'm the only person in my family that doesn't eat ribs, pork shoulder. Somewhere along the line, you forgot or, just don't know, children are people with a mind of their own. A parent's job is not to make their decisions for them but, to guide them in their decision making. " So as I tell you &, not as I does!" Staple phrase in the black community!

Tea Party Republican Defends Being on Medicaid While Opposing Medicaid

A Tea Party candidate for Idaho's House of Representatives defended himself against allegations of hypocrisy following an NBC News article in which he admitted to signing his entire family up for Medicaid while running on a platform that calls for the dismantling of all government programs.

"I donít think that the government should be involved in health care or health insurance," Greg Collett, 41, of Caldwell told NBC News earlier this month.

Collett, a self-employed software developer by trade, went on to note that his ten children ó two biological, eight adopted ó are all recipients of health insurance through the government's Medicaid program, and acknowledged that "there are a lot of people out there thatíll cry foul" over the dissonance.

And, indeed, many people did visit Collett's personal site shortly afterward to ask him what the hell.

In a lengthy response to all the naysayers, Collett attempted to defend his hypocrisy, but made it so much worse:

Let me set the record straight. Yes, I participate in government programs of which I adamantly oppose. Many of them, actually. Am I a hypocrite for participating in programs that I oppose? If it was that simple, and if participation demonstrated support, then of course. But, my reason for participation in government programs often is not directly related to that issue in and of itself, and it certainly does not demonstrate support. For instance, I participate in government programs in order to stay out of the courts, or jail, so that I can take care of my family; other things I do to avoid fines or for other financial reasons; and some are simply because it is the only practical choice. With each situation, I have to evaluate the consequences of participating or not participating.

Or, as Opposing Views helpfully summarizes: "[I]t is okay to take part in programs one opposes as long as one does not 'support' those programs."

<quoted text>I'm fine with who I am! I don't live my life trying to fit into any certain social community. I am like Jesus, who I am! No wonder more kids from your background commits suicide than my background. That cesspool has plenty of children to play with so, I guess it evens out, don't you think?

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